Sandy Lawrie, head of novel foods at the UK's Food Standards Agency, says they encourage companies to come to them with information about what they've developed, but so far there have only been a "small number of enquiries" from companies developing new foods using nanotechnology.
However, we consider that this is unlikely as the group of scientists involved in the study of IPTc is small and personal enquiries from those known to be active in the field, as well as formal literature searches, were undertaken.
– Facilitating learning through small group discussion and enquiry-based learning.
(The Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Small Animal Fatalities, CEPSAF).
Its department for small islands has already had enquiries from, among other countries, Japan and the Netherlands, two former colonisers.
Evidence from the 2007 CEMACH diabetes enquiry showed a very small proportion of units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland provided structured multidisciplinary preconception care for women with pre-existing diabetes, and noted poor documentation of pre-pregnancy counseling.
The question of where this small Canadian firm obtained data on UK citizens to carry out microtargeted political advertising has been another line of enquiry pursued by the committee.
